Monthly Archive September 15, 2020

Fall is the perfect time of year for addressing skunk worries around your house. Skunks like to seek refuge under decks, garages or tool sheds, or digging holes in your yard. These guys like to feed on grubs that live just below the root zone of your turf grass. The best way to lessen the chance of their return is to put down a grub killer on your lawn before winter, which will also eliminate other insect larvae as well. Skunks also like compost bins, garbage cans, or anywhere they can find foul foods so keep your trash picked up and protected in a box or shed.

Skunks Exclusion

Skunks Exclusion

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These Looper moths that we are currently seeing are native species to our region and they feed on trees, which is part of a normal cycle and they are harmless to us as they don’t sting or bite . The western loopers outbreak is every 11 to 15 years and the phantoms are every 12 years. In their caterpillar form they feed on coniferous trees. In a warming environment, especially without increased precipitation, the trees become stressed as the caterpillars eat the foliage and many trees will die as a result. The number of loopers will start to decrease by the end of September.

Western Hemlock and Phantom Looper Moths

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Soil-dwelling ants are at risk of pathogen infection so when choosing nesting sites, so new ant queens reduce this risk by avoiding contact with certain pathogens. They select safe nesting sites by detecting odors formed by dirt bacteria that prevent the growth of ant-infecting fungi, this is the first time that this been found to affect the nesting location of newly mated queens. Perhaps this will help with planning to change soil microbiota of invasive ants, where its rapid spread has caused economic and ecological issues.

New Ant Queens attracted to Soil Microbes

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It’s that season again where spiders start coming inside looking for mates, warmth and food – other insects. If you’re afraid of spiders, and most people are, here are some tips to keep them outside where they belong. We have 64 common spiders in B.C. but here are the main ones: Wolf Spiders, Brown Recluse, Sheet Web Weaver, Jumping Spider, Crab Spider, Daddy Long-Legs, Black Widow, Hobo Spider and the Tarantula. House spiders grow in numbers when egg sacs are carried in on furniture or building materials. From there, they mate and generally live in or under the same house throughout their entire life. Here is how to get rid of spiders.

1. Move garbage cans away from the house, flies around garbage’s attract spiders.

2. Turn off outdoor lights, they attract insect and therefore spiders.

3. Grow eucalyptus around your house, they don’t like it.

4. Spray vinegar around the house and especially in small crevices around your home.

5. Clean up and declutter your house

6.  Clean the garden and keep plants away from the perimeter of your home.  

7.  Seal up the cracks and openings around windows and doors.

8. Bleach can be used as a homemade pesticide so spray in areas where spiders are lurking.   

The Season of the Spiders  

The Season of the Spiders  

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Rats can make their homes in the most filthy parts of any city, the sewers. Here are some things that you may not know about these rats.

1. We are vaccinating rats by feeding them rat poison that doesn’t kill them but actually helps them mutate to be poison resistant.

2. A female rat gives birth to over 81 mischief (babies) a year.

3. Sewer rats survived atomic bomb tests in the 1940s.

4. Sewer rats can damage the foundation of buildings by digging their burrows.  

5. Sewer rats can sense danger – so they will try to escape, lie low and return when it is safe.

6. They practice their own population control by eating young or weaker rats.

7. They eat only eat 10% of their body weight at any meal and hoard food in their underground burrows.

8. They can gnaw through plastic pipes, irrigation systems, garbage cans, wood boxes, dry wall, and even concrete.

9.  Rats make their nests on the debris you flush down the toilet

10. As well as swimming and burrowing, rats can climb up vertical walls if the surface isn’t too smooth.

11. At any given time, you probably aren’t more then six feet away from a rat.

Rats living in Sewers

Rats living in Sewers

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As we end another summer wasps are on their last push for anything sugar, be it ripe fruit in trees to pop cans on the deck. As the queen ends her reign, she produces more queen that fly off to find an acceptable location to hibernate and start a new nest the following year. Old nests will never be reused as they know that parasites maybe present. All the female worker will soon begin to die-off. When the temperature goes below 11 degrees Celsius, it’s too cold for them to physically move around. Next spring, the new queen will search for food be it other insects, and start laying eggs. Those eggs will be the workers that do everything except lay eggs.

  

Wasp Season – going- going

Wasp Season – going- going

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As summer fades, why do rodents want to get into our homes, well there are several reasons. As the weather starts getting wetter and colder, rodents begin to look for shelter and there is nothing better than a well-insulated heated home. Rodents also need a benign place to produce off spring in the cold months and an attic or crawl space is the perfect place, secure and warmer then the outdoors. Rats and mice are opportunistic feeders, eating whatever they come across, be it grass seeds, fertilizer, plastic or food in your pantry. Our homes are like a walk-in grocery store for rodents and as food outdoors dries up, the lucky ones that find a way into our homes have hit the jackpot. So if rodents discover your house as paradise give us a call and we will send them packing.  

Summers out – Mice and Rats come in

Summers out – Mice and Rats come in

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